"When Jesus died and rose again, He NOT ONLY paid once and for all our whole lifetime of sins and transgressions, He had, MOST OF ALL, done away with our SINFUL NATURE."
Now, the second part of that statement has been very much forgotten and neglected by the Christian World today. We all need to wake up and realize once again that when we are in Christ, "we are a new creation, the old is gone, the new has come."
Until this truth sinks deep and takes root in our hearts, we'll continue to sin and excuse it as part of our fallen nature, as something unavoidable.
Until the FULL TRUTH of the MAGNITUDE of Jesus Christ's forgiveness for us and how much we've been forgiven really sinks into our soul, we're gonna inevitably continue our old lives.
Our sinful nature was a result of Adam's fall and it actually refers to our "old man" or our "urge to sin". When we sin, it doesn't make us a sinner. Instead, we sin BECAUSE we are sinners! The word "SIN" is therefore both a verb and a noun. We were sinners by birth (noun). Therefore, as a result, we sin(verb).
But then Jesus came. He paid it ALL and gave us a NEW nature. HIS very nature. We are no longer obliged to sin, because sin has lost its power in our lives and has no more control over us!
ROMANS 6:1-4
1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
I'm so thankful to God that Pastor stressed on this point over and over again!!
I don't know about you, but I'm truly blessed!! Praise Jesus!!
